Malaysia

Malaysia – A Thriving Academic Destination

Malaysia apart from its idyllic surroundings, hospitable people with their rich culture and rainforests, is also known to offer a level of university education that is comparable to the best elsewhere.

The small nation has enjoyed a rich and happy mix of its very own home grown universities, as well as those of foreign universities who have set up their campuses here. The universities in Malaysia offer several advantages for career growth to overseas students.

Between the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Bahru, Malaysian Borneo, this region has managed to successfully put in place a education system that is the envy of the world. Apart from the socio-cultural diversity and a highly accommodative nature of the society here, international students are also attracted towards its top universities because of the highly favourable investment to return ratio.

World class university education on a platter

What an average student from say India would be spending to earn a degree in the UK, USA or Australia would come at half the cost in any of the universities in Malaysia.

As mentioned above, Malaysia has for you the experience of native universities like – Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universitie Sains Malaysia (USM), etc. A few of these universities appear in the top 100 Universities of World, as per the survey of internationally acclaimed agencies.

The Malaysian Government has always followed a policy of encouraging the setting up of foreign universities on its shores along with its own. This approach has paid rich dividends.

As besides the above cited seats of learning, one finds Monash University (Australia) and University of Nottingham (UK) having flourishing campuses here. From the UK, you also have University of Reading, University of Southampton, Newcastle University Medicine; and, Maritime Institute of Technology from the Netherlands; and, from Singapore, Raffles University, and last but not the least, the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.